Your kind friend sent a condolence cardand in the envelope a small white featherwhich, she said, seemed to come from nowhere.Angel's wings obviously, I wrote in my reply.And for days after everywhere I wentI found small replicas, as if some tinyfeathered thing had scattered its moultingon urban pavements, in shops and unlikelybathrooms, a ... More

Some months after the funeral,checking emails from the other hemisphere,there's one from Pauline; subject: Hell.It's not promising. My mind traversesthe last five years, their litany of loss –a son, two friends and mentors,then you, lovely sister, and like some grimcomedic postscript even Frankiethe cat succumbed. Suffice to sayI ... More

'privately' inside the body but much of this is the extra-somatic (GAWW - not symptomatic but coral. 'the 20th century's premier art mode', though at that point only as an infusion, ubiquitous but still failing to assume the forms which will 'replace' life as a whole.)